US economy is falling apart, FED is only trying to slow it down by manipulating the market (increase rates while printing more money and while all the countries dumping US dollar are sending massive amounts back to US). Until that fall is complete we will see US markets crash and bitcoin will be affected but not as much anymore since all the weak hands are out and the Americans holding bitcoin who were starving have mostly sold their coins already.

The rest of the world doesn't really care.

That's the problem with newbies like you and the reason why dumps like this are fantastic for bitcoin because it purges people like you.
You were introduced to the cryptocurrency scene as a scene where you could become rich overnight. The rest of us were introduced to bitcoin as the only way to reach financial sovereignty.
So the difference is that you bought some shitcoins that promised you big returns and lost 90%+ of your investment but I started using bitcoin as a currency and have increased my income and freedom.

You should try to look at other previous FUDs like this to learn how they work before starting your own. Here is a complete list of them: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/


Nobody gives a shit because despite what you think there is a whole lot of world outside of USA with 8 billion people in it!

Wrong. This war (like other dozen ongoing wars) has no effects on bitcoin price whatsoever.
The recession + inflation that was caused because of incompetence and weakness of the European and American economies has led to sell pressure on bitcoin pushing its price lower as people sell their bitcoins to fill their hungry bellies in the West.

FTFY.
If you buy shitcoins at any price you are always in a bad place.

Wrong. It cold actually take less than 6 months to reach $100k but apart from that bitcoin is not about its price, it is a decentralized currency that regardless of its price will continue to offer its services to millions of people worldwide.

If the transaction is unconfirmed, that means it is no longer in the mempool and everyone has already forgotten about it. Unless you send it again today!
If it had remained in the mempool, it would have been confirmed years ago.

The only option is to double spend the same coins changing the destination. If the transaction were marked by RBF it is easier to double spend it, otherwise it is near impossible because almost all nodes reject double spend tranasctions.
Besides if the tx is currently in the mempool it will confirm soon since minimum fee is very low these days.

For reasons that I don't know of, the amounts are stored as signed integers (int64_t) not unsigned.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/623745ca74cf3f54b474dac106f5802b7929503f/src/consensus/amount.h#L12

Possibly. He could have been trying to make bitcoin feel like most other currency people are used to which have 2 decimal places regardless of what he liked.

Upgrading to a new software that enforces those rules is opt-in but not following the rules because it is not a choice to follow them, it is mandatory even if you are still on an older node.
For example after activation of SegWit you can no longer spend a OP_CHECKMULTISIG(VERIFY) script with any arbitrary dummy stack item, whereas you could do that before. It has to be OP_0 because of the new rule that is enforced.

In a way they already shoved democracy down our throats in day one of the revolution which is why Iran is a "Republic" instead of a full Theocracy/Monarchy which is the source of majority of our problems.

Anyway the aftermath has been pretty funny in the past couple of days. If you read the US media it gives you the feeling that there is a civil war going on in Iran. I even read an article last night on NewYorkTimes that was saying the cities have fallen ROFL.
The riots lasted 2 days (they ended on Wednesday, ie. 3 days before the NYT article), I even called my friend living in one of those "fallen cities" and he laughed his ass off about it.

They've gotten too desperate which is pretty funny. On social media they've been posting videos that are not even from Iran, in one of them if you paid attention they were speaking English which I think was from protests in Canada in January.

Speaking of propaganda here is the tip of the iceberg Stanford University in California found about the biggest propaganda campaign that the United States regime has been running:
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nj914nx9540/unheard-voice-tt.pdf

I'm more interested about why Germany is currently helping the invaders. I'm not talking a bout Russia but Azerbaijan and the weapons they've been sending them over the past month to invade Armenia. Apparently in German policy invading another country is only bad if Russia is doing not when some others do it. LOL

I get that but the point is about the "staying" not about where.

All I'm saying is that in the statement "price drops below a ATH by 20% and stays below that amount", the part where it was dropping is the bear market and the part where it "stays" below it is no longer the bear market. It's a third type of market trend.

This definition ("stays" at x%) is more like the definition of the sideways market not bull and bear.
Bull and bear markets are trends not what happened in the past. If price drops for example 20% in 1 week and then stays there for 6 months, that is a sideways market not a bear market.

This is why I don't consider this current situation to be either bull or bear market because the drop has been over ever since June when price reached $17500. It is just going sideways now.

It is always easy to manipulate altcoin markets because they either have small markets or have big manipulators even if it is easier to manipulate smaller altcoins.
It also doesn't take nearly as much as what you said to manipulate small altcoins. Sometimes even 0.1 to 1BTC is enough to start the pump or dump in hundreds of them. In fact a lot of pump and dumps in 2017 were with very small amounts of bitcoin.

I prefer to use backward compatibility to describe soft/hard forks but that description is still accurate. To add or remove/replace rules is the cause, backward compatibility is the effect.
In other words we can't add new rules and not-remain backward compatible and similarly we can not remove/replace rules and remain backward compatible.

For example it is a soft fork to add a new rule where coinbase script has to contain block time too so it is backward compatible. But it is a hard fork to remove the rule where coinbase script has to contain block height so it is not-backward compatible.

Actually at protocol level there is no decimal places whatsoever. There is only a 64-bit integer that represents amounts in what call satoshis. Meaning 1BTC is actually 100000000 satoshi at code level. Any kind of restriction is a UI thing that can be changed as it was changed over time, it used to be that way because price was very very low. Nowadays wallets show amounts in various formats with or without decimals and using different units (bits, mili and micro BTC).

You are asking the wrong question because it doesn't matter if some arbitrary statistics say there is a 0.1% drop or a 100000% rise when there is a serious "cost of living crisis" going on in UK and there are millions of people in UK who can not afford food anymore.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/more-than-half-britons-hurt-by-cost-living-crisis-nielseniq-2022-09-21/
Reuters is not even telling the whole truth since it is a mouthpiece spreading British propaganda.

The creator of Bitcoin (known with the user name: Satoshi Nakamoto) also created and owned the domain name bitcoin.org for a long time until they went away.
Martti Malmi (username: Sirius) shared the ownership for sometime before they went away too.
For a long time after that both theymos and Cøbra shared the ownership until theymos gave it up and to this day only Cøbra has the ownership.

I suppose people have to learn not to rely on centralized websites (or anything else) when they start using bitcoin.

They have to advertise their services somehow! They can't just place banner ads or run a signature campaign on bitcointalk because I don't think anybody would participate and they would probably be bashed to hell with their accounts neg-tagged
Their audience are also not here. So when they pay these news outlets to publish some nonsense about bitcoin and their services, they are practically advertising their services and to a better audience.

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"the US Department of Justice announced it had reclaimed almost all the Bitcoin. ~ FBI had tracked the ransom Colonial paid to an address tied to DarkSide, a Russia-linked cybercrime group associated with the attackers, and swooped in to seize it."
hmmm. they should have mentioned some other country that US has some jurisdiction not Russia where they don't!

That is very interesting but a little odd to be honest because at that point the code must have been written and "bitcoin-qt" should have been at least 80% complete. This means that the name should have been already set and any change would have required significant changes in the code, comments on it, etc.

Well it is the starving Europe that has been accumulating all the food they can get their hands on pretending that this accumulation is for the people of African! Read the opening post again, the Food War has been getting worse.

The news is also already over a month old where they made a laughable statement:
"the freed shipments will mean more grain on the world market and consequently lower prices".
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5398852.msg60744052#msg60744052

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The situation in Germany is getting worse

So is what we predicted is starting to happen?
As we speak many countries in European Union are starting to form their own "Union", in other words EU and soon NATO are falling apart. Right now France and England are joining what they call "European Group" as if changing the word Union to Group makes a difference.
The Balkans are forming their own thing too as they are the ones that are suffering the most specially since nobody in EU is honoring their promises to help them in energy and other things.
Eastern Europe is another scene entirely as they may even start moving towards joining the Eastern Bloc and normalize relations with Russia (not any time soon though).

The real question is are we going to see the third European War between these "groups" after 77 years?

They do and don't at the same time, it is a little weird. Bitcoin is recognized as a currency and is officially used for foreign trades. Bitcoin mining is recognized and has been done done in Iran for the past couple of years as a regulated and legitimate business. People trade bitcoin freely since there is no laws against it.
And yet bitcoin is not yet completely regulated as a currency for domestic use and I don't think it is going to happen either.

You already contradicted yourself. It's not about trust, inflation or anything like that either. People of any country use their own national currency regardless of its form (physical, digital or crypto).
BTW it's already available  for use through 2 banks and some people are using it to purchase goods in this testing phase.

It is called "رمزریال" and "رمز" is the equivalent of "crypto" in Farsi so it is Crypto-Rial.

Actually Iran's inflation is different since it has been high for a long time and existed before this recent global one. But also difference in the sense that over the past year it has significantly decreased, even more so during the past couple of months. In fact Iranian Rial went up about 17% against US dollar as dollar has been tanking hard over the past 6 months which contributed more to decreasing Iran's inflation.

O.T.:
That's more like another day in a 50+ year old cold war. Not to mention that color revolutions don't work in post-revolution I.R.I. People have already put aside what they were angry about 5 days ago and are protesting against the rioters (and the real enemy) in the million people march held today all around Iran.